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The ZEN is a portable media player in the Creative Zen series designed and manufactured by Creative Technology. This flash memory-based player is the de facto successor [3] of the ZEN Vision:M and was announced on August 29, 2007, to be available in capacities of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB, as of September 14. [4]
The name MP4 player was a marketing term for inexpensive portable media players, usually from little-known or generic device manufacturers. [50] The name itself is a misnomer, since most MP4 players through 2007 were incompatible with the MPEG-4 Part 14 or the .mp4 container format. Instead, the term refers to their ability to play more file ...
RCA Lyra RD2312. Lyra is a series of MP3 and portable media players (PMP). Initially it was developed and sold by Indianapolis-based Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc., a part of Thomson Multimedia, from 1999 under its RCA brand in the United States [1] and under the Thomson brand in Europe.
The Fuze supports MP3, WMA, PCM WAV, and, since the 1.01.15 firmware revision, OGG Vorbis and FLAC audio codecs.The Fuze can display both pictures and videos, both of which must first be converted with the Sansa Media Converter software for Windows; this program converts images to BMP format and videos to DivX-AVI, with specific parameters that make the media compatible with the device.
Rockbox is a free and open-source software replacement for the OEM firmware in various forms of digital audio players (DAPs) with an original kernel. [2] [3] It offers an alternative to the player's operating system, in many cases without removing the original firmware, which provides a plug-in architecture for adding various enhancements and functions.
It is the first player in the ZEN line to have the following features: a 16-bit color screen, unlike other ZEN players, which are 8-bit; a battery life of 30 hours (20 with the speakers), which was the longest compared to any previous ZEN player; the ability to read e-books; and the ability to show 3 different time zones "at a glance". The ZEN ...
The loosely defined category of S1 MP3 players is comprised by a large amount of then-inexpensive handheld digital audio players. [1] The players were mainly widespread around 2005–2006 [ citation needed ] but the series continued for years afterwards, blurring into that of so-called " MP4 players " employing S1 and competing architectures.
The Zune HD is a portable media player in the Zune product family released on September 15, 2009, by Microsoft. It was a direct competitor with Apple's iPod Touch series of mobile devices. It was initially released in 16 and 32 GB capacities. [6] A 64 GB version was released on April 9, 2010.